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I could afford ro renew my platinum seat but have chosen not to.
All my disenchantment is at how the club is being run. The premature sacking of Sousa was the tipping point for me. I think he is exactly the sort of coach we needed at QPR, and he had the support of the great majority of fans.
What he needed was a fit Vine and Buzsacky, plus a close season in which to pull in a couple of decent strikers. It's only then that we could have judged his abilities. To crucify the guy for not playing champagne football with the players he had available, is completely wrong. Instead, he did what he could with the players available, which was to make us a hard team to beat. This may not have pleased the more impatient fans, but it's a hard truth that that's how you start to build a decent side. You start at the back, and make your team hard to score against. The rest can come later.
I fear that some people will never admit that Sousa was treated badly, and will continue to deny that he was the victim of a personality clash that turned into a witch-hunt by an unrepresentative minority. From reading the messageboards, and from talking to a wide range of QPR fans, it's ckear that Sousa was, and remains, a highly popular manager.
I can only speak for myself, but I would have renewed my ST if Sousa was still manager. It was the forces at work behind his removal that finally led to me walking away from the club I've supported since the 1960s. I'm still as furious now about the Sousa scandal as I was at the time. It's a wound that will take a long time to heal for me and many others I know.
I will be back, no doubt, but things need to change first. The club needs to learn to love the fans again, and only then will I return. Of course I'll no doubt go to odd games, particularly away from home, but I won't buy an ST again until there are management changes, and a more rational and less impatient approach to achieving our goals.
As for Magilton, Cotterill etc. Sorry, not interested.
All my disenchantment is at how the club is being run. The premature sacking of Sousa was the tipping point for me. I think he is exactly the sort of coach we needed at QPR, and he had the support of the great majority of fans.
What he needed was a fit Vine and Buzsacky, plus a close season in which to pull in a couple of decent strikers. It's only then that we could have judged his abilities. To crucify the guy for not playing champagne football with the players he had available, is completely wrong. Instead, he did what he could with the players available, which was to make us a hard team to beat. This may not have pleased the more impatient fans, but it's a hard truth that that's how you start to build a decent side. You start at the back, and make your team hard to score against. The rest can come later.
I fear that some people will never admit that Sousa was treated badly, and will continue to deny that he was the victim of a personality clash that turned into a witch-hunt by an unrepresentative minority. From reading the messageboards, and from talking to a wide range of QPR fans, it's ckear that Sousa was, and remains, a highly popular manager.
I can only speak for myself, but I would have renewed my ST if Sousa was still manager. It was the forces at work behind his removal that finally led to me walking away from the club I've supported since the 1960s. I'm still as furious now about the Sousa scandal as I was at the time. It's a wound that will take a long time to heal for me and many others I know.
I will be back, no doubt, but things need to change first. The club needs to learn to love the fans again, and only then will I return. Of course I'll no doubt go to odd games, particularly away from home, but I won't buy an ST again until there are management changes, and a more rational and less impatient approach to achieving our goals.
As for Magilton, Cotterill etc. Sorry, not interested.
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